Your strong friends need a break too.
Being an empathetic person is not cute. It's not fun and games, its exhausting. Its extremely exhausting. As I write this, I'm honestly so so so exhausted. And listen, this is not me asking for your sympathy or pity or anything like that, I'm giving myself the space to be open about how I honestly and truly feel for the first time in a very very long time. Empaths take on a whole lot of weight, a lot more than they should. They don't know how to say no. Uyayazi ipillar of strength? Empaths are rarely given the platform to be vulnerable, to be raw, to pour out their hearts, because everyone expects them to be the strong one. And listen, this is definitely not an attack on people who vent a lot. To be honest I don’t really blame them because when you're used to someone always being strong or someone who is always there to say "talk to me" when you're going through something, its pretty hard to imagine them being anything else but strong. But today I...